Determinants of the Recent Growth Surge in Africa : What Changed since mid - 1990 s ?

Tuberculosis control: how the world has changed since 1990.

In 1990 the Commission on Health Research for Development stated that ‘‘The magnitude of the tuberculosis problem is matched only by its relative neglect by the international community.’’ (1) A decade later, in March 2000, ministers of health and finance from the 20 countries that have 80% of the world’s tuberculosis cases met in Amsterdam and issued the Amsterdam Declaration. This stated that ...

Fluctuations in the Swiss Franc : What has Changed Since the Euro ' s Introduction ?

The monetary implications arising from EMU for Swiss monetary policy show up primarily in the exchange rate. Until now, fluctuations in the Swiss franc against the euro have been surprisingly moderate. The Swiss franc has thus tracked the euro's decline against the US dollar without experiencing strong inflationary pressures and a convergence in the interest-rate differential: a paradoxical res...

Darwin ’ s mid - evening surge Gerald

What is Behind the Recent Surge in Patenting in China?

By identifying the features of patent applications filed by 22 countries at the Chinese Patent Office from 1996 to 2003, this study finds that the main factors accounting for the recent patent boom in China can be attributed to the second revision of the Chinese patent law in 2000, the intensification of R&D expenditure both in China and the rest of the world, and the increasing foreign direct ...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...